Chimney-holder



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOI-IN W. SHARPE, OF LOWELL, MASSACHUSETTS.

CHlMNEY-HOLDER.

SPECIFICATION forming part 0f Letters Pateilt No. 483,586, dated October 4, 1892.

Application filed February 10, 1892- Serial No. 420,982. (No model.

.To a/ZZ whom it may oon/cern..-

Be it known that I, JOHN W. SHARPE, a citizen of the United States, residing at Lowell, in the county of Middlesex and State of Massachusetts, have invented a new and useful Ohimneyl-Iolder, of which the following is a specification.

The invention relates to improvements in chimney-holders.

The object of the present invention is to provide a simple and inexpensive chimneyholder adapt-ed to be readily adjusted to chimneys of different sizes and capable of securely fastening a chimney to a burner.

The invention consists in the construction and novel combination and arrangement of parts hereinafter fully described, illustrated in the accompanying drawings, and pointed out in the claims hereto appended.

In the drawings, Figure l is a perspective view of a portion of a lamp provided with a chimney holder constructed in accordance with this invention. Fig. 2 is a similar View of the holder detached.

Like numerals indicate corresponding parts in all the figures. Y

1 designates a chimney-holder comprising a loop 2, adapted to lit over the top of a lampchimney 3 and to engage the same above the bulge or enlarged portion thereof, spiral springs 4, connected with the loop, and hooks 5, arranged at the lower ends of the springs and adapted to engage the rim of a burner 6, whereby the chimney is securely clamped on the burner. Theloop 2 is composed of curved wires 7, which are twisted or braided at 8, and thereby secured together near their ends 9, and the latter are attached to the upper ends of the spiral springs 4. The spiral springs 4. are eXtensible and render the device adjustable to various-sized chimneys, and they eX- ert their tension directly upon the hooks and the loop and serve to retain the chimney on the burner and to maintain the former in its proper position. The loop 2, being composed of curved wires, saddles the chimney above the bulged portion and cannot slip, as would be the case were it iiexible and were a strain exerted on it.

It will be seen that the chimney-holder is simple and inexpensive in construction, and that it is adapted to be readily adjusted to the different sizes of the ordinary lamp-chimneys, and that it is capable of securely clamping a chimney on a burner.

The device is detached from a burner by a handle 10, which is secured to the outer engaging arm of the hook and which is constructed of wire, the latter being wrapped around the said outer arm ot' the hook. The handle is preferably provided at its outer end with a finger-loop l1.

1. A chimney-holder comprising the continuous non-elastic loop 2, having curved wires adapted to saddle the bulged portion of a chimney, and elastic connections between the ends of the loop and a burner, substantially as described.

2. A chimney/holder comprising the nonelastic loop 2, adapted to saddle the bulged portion. of a chimney, spiral springs having their upper ends attached to the loop and forming elastic connections between the latter and the burner, hooks arranged at the lower ends of the springs to engage a burner, and the handles 10, provided with finger-loops 1l and constructed of wire secured to the hooks, substantially as described.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own I have hereto affixed my signature in the presence of two witnesses.

JOI-'IN W. SI-IARPE.

Witnesses:

M. LOUISE VAENUM, EDWARD W. TRULL. 

